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Weekly Climate News

April 15, 2021 

  • Non-fungible tokens, a new blockchain technology, have been found to have a large environmental impact. 

  • Many cyclists are unhappy about a new rule change that ends the tradition of tossing water bottles to fans during races. 

  • The Muldrow Glacier in Alaska is moving up to 90 feet a day, 100 times faster than its normal pace. 

  • A cyclone hit Indonesia, leaving over 160 people dead from flash floods and landslides. Many are claiming the Indonesian government’s recent rollback of environmental protections worsened the crisis. 

  • Japan’s recent approval of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific Ocean has been met with fierce opposition. 

  • Despite a slow economy resulting from COVID-19, greenhouse gases are currently on the rise. 

  • The proposal for the construction of a controversial biomass power plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, was revoked by the state’s Department of Environmental Protection. 

  • CACTO claims to be the first “carbon negative fashion company in the Americas” because it removes more atmospheric carbon than it produces through the manufacturing of its cactus leather products.

Weekly Climate News

October 29, 2020

  • Indigenous Mayan communities are suing the Mexican government over plans to install more than 1 million solar panels near their homes, a project that would require clearance of 600 hectares of trees from their communities. 

  • Vietnam prepares for Typhoon Molave, the fourth storm to hit the central region of the country in the past few weeks in a series of the most intense tropical storms they have experienced in decades. Currently, 130 people have been reported dead and 18 missing, and about 300,000 homes have been damaged or completely collapsed by the floods. 

  • The Trump administration has rolled back nearly 100 climate policies and rules in regards to clean air, water, wildlife and toxic chemicals. Here is the full list. 

  • Ranchers and activists have taken sides in a proposed plan to cull the Tule Elk Herd in Point Reyes National Seashore, located north of San Francisco, California. 

  • Check out this list of key Senate races which could largely determine the future of U.S. climate policy. 

  • Japan announced ambitious plans to become carbon neutral by 2050. 

  • Fossil fuel companies are losing favor with investors, as many are turning toward the renewable energy sector. 

  • Poor air quality in Asia has been linked to billions of premature deaths, and a new report claims that breathing air in New Delhi can shorten life expectancy by more than nine years. 

  • A new study by NASA will look at how particulate matter in air pollution affects human health.